September 11
[[pl:11 wrze%B6nia]] September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years). There are 111 days remaining.
Events:
- 1541 - Santiago, Chile destroyed by indigenous tribes.
- 1609 - Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan island.
- 1709 - Battle of Malplaquet - Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria defeat France
- 1714 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Borbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 1777 - Battle of Brandywine
- 1789 - Alexander Hamilton is appointed as first Secretary of the Treasury
- 1814 - The Battle of Plattsburg
- 1827 - Mormons and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah
- 1847 - Stephen Foster's most memorable song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating German contingent there
- 1919 - US Marines invade Honduras
- 1921 - Fatty Arbuckle arrested for rape
- 1922 - United Kingdom mandate of Palestine begins
- 1926 - Assasination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
- 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
- 1940 - George Stibitz pioneered the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1941 - Ground broken for the construction of the Pentagon.
- 1944 - Netherlands liberated by Allies
- 1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
- 1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
- 1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
- 1973 - Chilean armed forces headed by General Augusto Pinochet take control of the country in a coup d'etat against President Salvador Allende.
- 1982 The Lebanese Christian Militia kill 1,700 Palestinians in Beirut.
- 1997 - Scotland votes to create its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
- 1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the US Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
- 2000 - Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia
- 2001 - The September 11 Terrorist Attack - Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City within minutes of each other; the World Trade Center towers collapse. Another plane crashes into the Pentagon, destroying a section. A fourth plane crashes outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Births:
- 1711 - William Boyce, composer.
- 1862 - O. Henry, writer. (+ 1910)
- 1885 - D.H. Lawrence, novelist. (+ 1930)
- 1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer (+ 2000)
- 1913 - Paul 'Bear' Bryant, College American football coach (+ 1983)
- 1917 - Jessica Mitford, writer.
- 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines politician. (+ 1989)
- 1924 - Tom Landry, National Football League coach (+ 2000)
- 1935 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (+ 2000)
- 1940 - Brian de Palma, director.
- 1942 - Lola Falana, singer
- 1943 - Mickey Hart, musician
- 1948 - John Martyn, musician.
- 1962 - Kristy McNichol, actress
- 1965 - Richard Melville Hall aka Moby, musician.
- 1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., singer.
- 1978 - Ludacris, singer
Deaths:
- 1931 - Salvatore Maranazano, crime boss
- 1948 - Mohammad Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan
- 1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader.
- 1972 - Max Flesicher, animator
- 1973 - Salvador Allende, Chilean President.
- 1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox (contracted in a lab accident).
- 1987 - Lorne Greene, actor.
- 1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer
- 1994 - Jessica Tandy, actress.
- 1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist.
- 2001 - Barbara K. Olson, US political figure
- 2002 - Johnny Unitas, quarterback
Holidays:
- Catalonia national day, after the 1714 defeat.
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